The plan was devised under Connecticut's 1993 voluntary school desegregation law, which offered towns and cites grants to promote racial diversity, and it came with the promise of state money.
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Weld pitched his message to a friendly audience Tuesday : more than 400 Timilty students, many of whom were wearing the voluntary school uniform of white shirt, tie, and khaki pants.
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Reed said Powell " has indicated that he's proabortion, against voluntary school prayer, in favor of affirmative action " and " he's willing to accept some forms of gun control ."
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In a speech Monday to the nation's governors in Las Vegas, President Clinton, who formally nominated Weld last week, mentioned Weld while praising governors who have supported his voluntary school testing program.
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But some of the Republicans'most important proposals-- to require a balanced federal budget, to limit the tenure of members of Congress and to allow voluntary school prayer-- take the form of constitutional amendments.
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I have consistently voted in favor of voluntary school prayer and in favor of the right of parents to home-school their children, and yet those votes are not even mentioned in the guide.
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Reed said his organization has budgeted more than $ 1 million for a public relations campaign in support of the amendment, which would permit voluntary school prayer and other religious activities on government property.
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The recent church burning, which follows an unsolved cross-burning in suburban Knoxville last year, could be the result of renewed attention on race issues spurred by a voluntary school desegration plan, some blacks said.
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Republican Robert Aderholt, a conservative municipal judge who favors a constitutional ban on abortion and voluntary school prayer, beat former state Sen . Bob Wilson Jr ., a Democrat, in a close race, 50-48 percent.
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Weicker says that he was so busy getting his agenda passed-- the state's first income tax, gun control laws and a voluntary school desegregation plan-- that he devoted little time to building a party structure.
